Fraudster Chandra Patel who was jailed for 10 months for taking thousands of pounds in deposits handed over by tenants faces more time in prison if he does not repay the cash. Patel ran Giraffe Residential, in New Malden, Surrey, when he started dipping into cash he...

Landlord Rehan Sheikh was sentenced to four months in jail after giving six tenants a two-hour warning that he was going to evict them after they complained about the condition of their shared home. He even threw out a mum while her two children were at school,...

Letting agent Martin Marcus was jailed for four and half years for scamming landlords and tenants out of £200,000 for a ‘crude fraud’. Marcus admitted five fraud charges at Harrow Crown Court. He conned customers across North London out of deposits and rents to pay...